By Tovin Lapan

Back in 2000, the popular HBO series "Sex and the City" launched a cupcake craze with the main character's devotion to New York's Magnolia Bakery. Like a contagious sugar rush, shops dedicated to the single-serving sweets started to dot U.S. cities like liberally applied sprinkles. The virtues of cupcakes — comforting thoughts of mom and home, their egalitarian nature — were trumpeted from coast to coast. That wave had yet to truly dissipate when th ...

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